sherry is live in ocean city. sherry, it looks like the calm is coming now before the storm for you you. >> reporter: it is. we seem to be in one of these bands and one is past us and i am sure that we're going get hit by another one. it's a little bit of a welcome and given the pounding that we have taken here all day long. this is extensive damage throughout ocean city and the entire town prety much is sealed off. you can not get out or in. the bridges have been closed expect for emergency vehicles. the streets are flooded and we have homes that are flood and if you look at the ocean you can see this huge storm surge that's coming in. this is the time that the town said that they expected to have the worst of sandy coming through and we're seeing it. one thing that is sort of saving the beach here is the winds seem to be sheering off a little bit of the waves and holding them back. we're still seeing over wash on to the board walk. it's the same thing that we saw on high tide earlier this morning as well. throug